Re: Oracle8i 8.1.7.0.0 : difference between the Oracle Entreprise Edition and the Oracle Standard Edition ?

Oracle Standard Edition is just Oracle Enterprise Edition with some of the newer features turned off. There are more than what's listed below but I can't remember them all. Oracle's own people won't recommend that you buy EE unless you are running a data warehouse, have a very high number of concurrent users, or havev high availability requirements.

One caveat, though. Oracle won't license SE on a machine that is capable of more than 4 processors (and what decent machine isn't these days?). It doesn't matter how many processors are on the box, it's how many the box is capable of. I haven't been able to find this tidbit on any of the Oracle web sites or sales material - it just showed up during the licensing discussions.

"Niall Litchfield" <niall.litchfield_at_dial.pipex.com> wrote in message news:3b1151c7$0$15028$cc9e4d1f_at_news.dial.pipex.com...
> Functionally they *are* different, but not as much as oracle would like
 you
> to believe.
>
> Some goodies NOT in standard edition (8i)
>
> Query rewrite (and hence for example materialized views)
> 5 archive log destinations
> advanced security
> partitioning.
>
>
> --
>
> Niall Litchfield
> Oracle DBA
> Audit Commission UK
> "Randall Roberts" <randall_at_filer.org.nospam> wrote in message
> news:3b0c03c6_3_at_news.pcmagic.net...
> > Sorry... I couldn't resist that.
> >
> > The differences are licensing issues. Standard edition is not supposed
 to
> > scale to as many users.
> >
> > I've heard it said that functionally they are no different, except for
 in
> > packagaing and licensing.
> > I trust the people I've heard it from, but will be interested to see
 posts
> > from others on this.
> >
> > R
> >
> >
> > Randall Roberts <randall_at_filer.org.nospam> wrote in message
> > news:3b0c02ab_3_at_news.pcmagic.net...
> > > Several Thousand Dollars.
> > >
> > >
> > > Matthieu Krembel <m.krembel_at_ch-rouffach.fr> wrote in message
> > > news:9eggp7$753$1_at_reader1.fr.uu.net...
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Which is the difference the Oracle Entreprise Edition and the Oracle
> > > > Standard Edition ?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for your answers,
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Matthieu Krembel
> > > > CH-ROUFFACH
> > > > E-Mail : m.krembel_at_ch-rouffach.fr
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Received on Sun May 27 2001 - 21:15:38 CDT